| 单词 | contiguity |
| 释义 | contiguity (once / 12299 pages) n Use the noun contiguity when you're talking about the state of things being right up next to each other, like the contiguity of two countries that share a border. You're most likely to come across the word contiguity in a discussion of geography. For example, you could talk about the contiguity of the United States and its northern neighbor, Canada, or the contiguity of New Hampshire and Vermont. Contiguity shares a root with the more common contiguous, the Latin contingere, which means "to touch upon." WORD FAMILYcontiguity: contiguities+/contiguous: contiguity, contiguously, contiguousness USAGE EXAMPLESWhile the Assad regime holds large territory encompassing major population centers of western Syria, there is no contiguity between that territory and Iraq. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) Haplotig A in chromosome 8 is even longer than the non-N bases of the reference, indicating both assembly and phasing achieved higher contiguity. Nature(Oct 04, 2016) The extremist group’s firewall blocks territorial contiguity between Iran and its Arab proxies in Syria and Lebanon. Wall Street Journal(Sep 29, 2016) n the attribute of being so near as to be touching Syn|Hyper adjacency, contiguousness closeness, nearness the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。